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bøşſї@thisisbossi· 8d

I also like to live dangerously.

A photo of a hand holding a salad as they walk down a city street. This is notably in the middle of a cyclosporiasis (aka explosive diarrhea) outbreak linked to salad greens.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· 12d

Made sure to include a comment on it in my review:

A screenshot of text reading:
c. [PRIVATE ACCESS] Revise the other Private Access cross-section #4, which currently shows:
i. 2’ buffer alongside combined parking lane (minimum 3’)
ii. 5’ sidewalk (minimum 6’)
iii. Total ROW is 57’ (minimum 60’)
iv. A mother and child are shown flying above the parking lane.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· 13d

Something seems either wrong or excessively truthful with this draft cross-section

bøşſї@thisisbossi· 18d

A DOS style command prompt from the game Zork reading "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

bøşſї@thisisbossi· 20d

A line from The Simpsons of Ned Flanders' parents going "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"

bøşſї@thisisbossi· 22d

Having grown up on the Aeneid & siding with the Trojans there's always a fun thrill in rooting for every gods-imposed disaster on Odysseus' foolhardy voyage of gradual self-reflection.

The Mitchell & Webb "Are we the baddies?" meme but very with Agamemnon and Odysseus poorly photoshopped in; a caption added "Aggie, are we the baddies"

bøşſї@thisisbossi· 29d

I feel like this is a mistake? Don't see city DOTs doing this often these days... DDOT resurfacing the 1200-1300 blocks of 6th St NE and *adding" in a 2nd southbound travel lane. This is approaching unprotected crossings at Neal & Morse + immediately at the world's premier University for the Deaf.

A sunny daytime photo of 6th Street NE looking toward the southwest, showing temporary pavement markings indicating a new additional lane & pedestrians crossing in an unprotected crosswalk.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· 29d

This is my Luddite goal

Michael Caine in Children of Men playing a neo-Luddite character living in a gorgeous house in the forest, surrounded by books & greenery, living off solar and a warm fireplace.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jul 10

I need to update my Many Names map not just with the Silver Line but also to add North by North Bethesda, Norther Bethesda, and Northest Bethesda to the remaining stations along the Western Branch of the Red Line. flic.kr/p/b31ZwH

A custom map of the DC Metrorail system that applies every station name precedent to every other station, resulting in a cacophonous mess of text & confusion.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jul 10

A 7 July 2026 post from @THEHermanCain on Twitter reading "I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky."

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jul 8

Her cuter self

A dog (a Husky-Shiba mix) curled up on a white sofa, a blue wisteria tucked into the side of the sofa.

A dog (a Husky-Shiba mix) sitting along a pedestrian plaza looking attentively & happily toward the camera

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jul 8

Everyone admire my beautiful puppy

A dog (a Husky-Shiba mix) attempting to slurp at a deep-cup Pup Cup; her snout on the rim, teeth being bared by her rim-blocked lips, her tongue extending into the cup to get at the whipped cream, and her adorable eyes a mix of cute with a hint of maniacal craze from her love up pup cups. It is not the dog's most flattering photo.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jul 8

The voice going through my head whenever I've warned this would happen.

Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jul 8

Not the specific purpose I had expected at the time we were renaming White Flint Metro, but I'm on the shuttle at the Friendship Heights station and having separate buses for Bethesda and for North Bethesda is REALLY confusing a lot of people naming-wise.

View from a bus along northbound Wisconsin Avenue NE immediately approaching Western Avenue NE. The weather is daytime, cloudy. An idle police vehicle blocks the bus lane up ahead.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jul 5

How can someone carve a 350' gash into the reflecting pool? When was the last time you ever saw anyone carve a gash into the side of Sacramento's 350' tall Robert T. Matsui Federal Courthouse?

A daytime image of the Robert T. Matsui Federal Courthouse in Sacramento, a 350' tall glass and concrete structure.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jul 3

The HUGE(1) formation didn't seem very huge; looking forward to HUGE(1)(1)FINAL

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jul 2

Sometimes I kind of wish we could flip all the houses around & make the alleys the places you want to walk.

A daytime photo of a brick-paved tree-lined alley lined with garages and waste bins. The photo is meant to assert that it would be like a Dutch woonerf if only buildings fronted the alley instead of their rear.

A daytime photo of a brick-paved alley lined with garages and waste bins. A small foot-alley branches off beneath a pretty tree canopy. The photo is meant to assert that it would be like a Dutch woonerf if only buildings fronted the alley instead of their rear.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 29

Well that's not a good sign for the eternally embattled DHCA

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 27

It's intriguing to see an inlet along the side of a center-drain alley. I'm sure if I looked at a drainage plan it'd make sense; I suspect it has to do with it being pretty steep & maybe for the design storm the center drain becomes inundated?

A cloudy daytime photo of an alley in the Trinidad neighborhood of Washington DC. The alley is paved with brick and sloped to drain to the center, but an inlet is present along the left (south) side of the photo. The alley is also somewhat steep insofar as drainage goes, sloping downward toward the camera.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 26

You can't just show me a highly pixelated red object and a highly pixelated green object and not expect me to immediately name them Mario and Luigi.

A news blurb of a space.com article on new JWST photos of merging galaxies, with one accompanying photo on the left colored green and one on the right colored red.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 23

Now in Eckington: The sidewalk closure, and The sidewalk detour

A daytime photo during rainy weather along a major today. A white PEPCO van blocks off a sidewalk without any advance warning nor accessible barriers at the point of closure; only orange cones and a horizontal pole between the cones about 3 ft above the pavement. A small inaccessible arrow sign points pedestrians to the right. The path it points to has a natural dirt surface, is very muddy & puddled, and anyone who travels it can be liable for damaging public property.

A daytime photo during rainy weather along a major today. Due to PEPCO blocking the sidewalk, the photo shows a small inaccessible arrow sign pointing to the right. The path it points to has a natural dirt surface, is very muddy & puddled, and anyone who travels it can be liable for damaging public property.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 21

Additionally these portable lights apparently aren't supposed to be used in rain, except maybe if the rain is also a library, nor near crosses lest they attract divine wrath.

A warning sticker on a portable generator-powered light by the US Capitol with various graphics being misinterpreted (maybe??) in the main text.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 19

But I suppose this could be a kind of response

A pop-up window upon opening the 311 app that is mostly empty & extremely error prone.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 19

After OUC asked that I send in specific issues with 311 I sent them the following on May 13th (no response has yet been received)

What is OUC's timeline for fixing 311, and what issues are they aware of? Some of the things I'd love for the app to address:

1) Missed Taps and Lag - Eliminate missed taps & lag for those using a phone. As an example: if I type "555" my phone's haptic feedback will trigger each time but it'll only input just 5 or 55. If I want to type "555" I'll have to press 5 usually five or six times. (This only started happening over the past year.)

2) Mobile Keyboard Hitboxes - The 311 app appears to reshape the hitboxes for keyboard presses. As an example: I can press the number 9 but consistently input the letter P. This happens across the entire keyboard & I don't have this issue in any other apps. (This only started happening over the past year.)

3) Restore Swipe-Typing - Being able to swipe-type on a phone instead of only being able to tap letters individually. (this functionality was removed at some point in the past year)

4) Auto-Location - The app used to automatically use photos' location data to pinpoint the location on the next page, but for the past year or so that functionality has stopped working.

5) Attach Multiple Media - Add the ability to attach multiple photos+videos at once instead of one at a time.

6) Failed Submissions - Sometimes an entry with multiple photos+videos will fail to submit, and will never succeed no matter how many times I try to submit.

7) Addressing System - Change 311 addressing away from the address-based system and to a coordinate-based system. Many locations don't have a viable address & it frequently results in crews going to the wrong location when they don't read the descriptions.

8) Address Fine-Tuning - Change the map tool to keep the target point centered in the view, so we can pan to fine-tune the correct location.

9) Customize Suggestions - Allow users to customize the four "Suggested" options on the 311 homepage. They never reflect any of the things I submit almost daily.

10) Pause Option - Add a Pause option for 311 tickets for things which cannot be resolved at the present time. An example might be where a request for new pavement markings is submitted in December, but DDOT can't do anything until springtime. This can reduce issues with tickets being closed without any action, but not penalize agencies for keeping tickets open past their due date.

11) Current Handler - For existing 311 requests: add the contact info for the current handler/owner of the request.

12) Request Streamlining - Streamline requests: many ask for the same info repeatedly, particularly contact information (which auto-fills on the final submittal page, anyway). Many other requests (such as for things like sidewalk repair or tree pruning) have nonsensical inputs & options, or they lack options for things I regularly want to submit for.

13) Whitespace Reduction - Reduce whitespace to make it easier to quickly input requests by phone. Move the "Next" buttons to the right side of the inputs rather than absorbing vertical space beneath them.

14) Illegal Construction; DDOT - Adjust the "Illegal Construction" request to properly route DDOT issues to DDOT instead of DOB.

15) Request Forwarding - Add the ability for 311 requests to be forwarded to other recipients. As with my previous bullet: if only DOB could/would forward things to DDOT it would be a huge help.

16) HAID Media Forwarding - Ensure "How's Am I Driving" requests pass all attached media onto the recipients. Every agency that follows up on HAID requests with me never seems to have access to photos, video, nor any additional text information that I had added to the 311 ticket.

17) QA Monitoring Resubmittals & Surveys - Add program monitoring to look for cases where 311 tickets are closed, but the same issue is resubmitted -- indicating that an agency may be prematurely closing things without acting on them.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 17

Also this 63-21 showing for White almost inevitably defeating Pinto is a little surprising (I thought Pinto would get at least 30% first round?) and pretty exciting for what has generally become a rather low-stakes / low-interest job. Hopefully White brings a little more action to the role.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 17

With this showing what're the odds we ever see Vincent Orange running for office again? I'll admit the man has tenacity.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 13

Tree Shade Secure

A sunny daytime photo of four members of various National Guard forces engaged in the occupation of Washington DC, but standing idle under a tree in a quiet serene park.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 12

A line chart showing the number of times Trump has said that an Iran Deal has been imminent, counting 37 times since March 23rd and still no such "deals"

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 11

Upon discovering I have zero functioning pens I decided "sure let's go outside white it's over 100° to go vote for a single Special Election"

A daytime photo of a man in a black t-shirt from the local philanthropic organization HIPS reading "be nice to sex workers" in pink text, and also an "I VOTED YO VOTÉ" sticker.

bøşſї@thisisbossi· Jun 6

More block parties, yes